| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 240 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Contents -- List of figures and artwork credits -- Timeline: Charting a year in a pandemic -- Voices for change -- Introduction: A whisper in history: poverty, families and the pandemic -- Britain enters lockdown -- Summertime -- Back to school? -- Christmas in the pandemic -- Winter lockdown: hard times get harder still -- The Budget: counting the money we do not have -- Conclusion: Our manifesto for change -- Afterword: This is no way for anyone to have to live -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Telling the stories of low-income families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic in the UK and offers key policy recommendations for change |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index |
| Subject |
Poor families -- Great Britain
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COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
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Equality -- Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy.
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Economics.
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Equality.
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Poor families.
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Great Britain.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Power, Maddy, author
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Garthwaite, Kayleigh, author
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Kaufman, Jim, author
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Page, Geoff, author
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Pybus, Katie, author
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| ISBN |
1447364716 |
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9781447364719 |
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9781447364702 |
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1447364708 |
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